DevRel TPS report WE: 26-Feb-2021

DevRel Weekly Updates Thread

• Progress (last week)
• Priorities (for next week)
• Blockers

Progress:

• made diagram slides for Matt for his preso on Wed
• helped Mally with a new form of note taking for user interviews in Airtable
• helped Cameron with the dev list, syncing again on this shortly

Priorities

• Dev List with Cameron
• Providing support to those who need it on DevRel with automations, ect.
• Reading up on Matt’s example apps here: NEAR App Examples · GitHub so that I can producitze them
• NExt week planning to sync with Mally re: Culture interviews

Blockers

• none

Progress

• hello decentralization rocked
• BP talk went well
• “code example review” efforts are exciting
• fungible token examples done
• onboarding diagrams of sub account flow done

Priorities

• clean up on near-apps
• clean up the devrel project board
• continue to work on process 1 pagers and “what we can offer”

Blockers

• comms and alignment with others and their projects - would like to see everyone pulling in the same direction, finding ways to work together vs. running off starting random projects they think are cool - let’s increase “how can I help” vs. “take toys and leave”

Priorities (next week):
-finish standard NEAR history
-narrative with Peter
-finalize DevRel content strategy
-finish dev team alignment work with Yulian, establish next steps
-finalize research script
-onboard to Dovetail
-user onboarding story
-write about onboarding users

Progress (this week):
-finished internal dev-facing interviews to align on feedback/prioritization
-delivered character personas (w/ Yulian) for user research
-Crypto Valley article
-NEAR dev positioning work

Blockers:
-why are there not more hours in the day!

Progress

• wrapped up NCD week v1
• final push on NEAR Academy, to be released within 1-2 wks

Priorities

• capture feedback from NCD
• overhaul course as needed for next iteration on March 8
• wrap NEAR Academy for launch

Blockers

• none

• Progress (last week)

  • began recording assets for blockheads music app
  • working on summary sheets for core contract tutorials
  • finished onboarding document in dev rel
  • updated stack overflow with
  • learned about feedback tools and airtable tutorials
  • made plan to meet with young entrepreneurs in Portland with Mike Purvis for a video collab

• Priorities (for next week)

  • continue making assets for music app videos
  • finishing up core contract summary sheets

• Blockers

  • learning rust

Here is the update for last week, which I sent it to Asia team on Monday. let’s also sync here.

Progress in the Week of 2021/02/22:

1. Build: working with two partners on NEAR integration
2. UX: Wallet Issues in China: follow up fixing wallet issues
3. Community: NEAR Developer Docs Translation: worked with community 1st version in test environment: http://121.199.38.122:3001/docs/zh-CN/concepts/epoch#
4. Education: NEAR Certified Developer Program: Q/A and feedback collection
5. Community: CN Guilds operation and motivation strategy (with Angela)
6. Community: technical posts proof reading: Development update, NEAR EVM update, EVM Rollout Plan, Certified Developer post

Priorities in the Week of 2021/03/01:

1. Build: complete the testing version of NEAR integration with one parnter
2. UX: Wallet Issues, SDK design, etc.
3. Community: NEAR Developer Docs Translation: work with community for translation and proof reading
4. Education: NEAR Certified Developer Program: feedback and improvement plan with Sherif
5. Community: Technical posts proof reading for Bridge, etc.
6. Event: prepare Bridge / interoperability presentation with Conflux

Blockers:

1. Need to review the design of NEAR integration with one partner
2. Need to confirm the plan of Bridge talk / workshop with Conflux